Permitting deal draws lobbying blitz as hurdles mount
A fragile Senate permitting deal has drawn lobbying from oil and gas, mining, renewables and environmentalists, per newly filed lobbying disclosures.
Source: Axios (axios.com)
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648 items of 1822 · updated Oct 30, 2026, 6:10 AM ET
A fragile Senate permitting deal has drawn lobbying from oil and gas, mining, renewables and environmentalists, per newly filed lobbying disclosures.
Source: Axios (axios.com)
Mehdi Hasan discusses AIPAC's role in the Michigan midterm race between Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers, and Trump's targeting of Ilhan Omar.
Source: Democracy Now! (democracynow.org)
University of Georgia students in the toss-up governor's race between Keisha Lance Bottoms and Rick Jackson say affordability beats abortion.
Source: Rewire News Group (rewirenewsgroup.com)
In June, gusts in central New Mexico, a few hours east of Albuquerque, began powering the largest wind farm on the continent, in the biggest renewable energy project in US history.
Source: Vox (vox.com)
Nearly two in three U.S. adults younger than 30 who plan to vote in next month's midterm elections say their main motivation is to oppose President Trump, according to a Harvard Youth Poll.
Source: Axios (axios.com)
TIME reports the U.S. is considering major strikes on Iran after the midterms; Trump previously said the war would end after the November elections in the U.S.
Source: TIME (time.com)
An analysis says the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts have expelled nearly a million people through July, including voluntary returns and people turned around at the border.
Source: Stateline (stateline.org)
Democrat David Crowley and Republican Tom Tiffany faced off in their only Wisconsin governor's debate, tangling on issues including the 2020 election results and Democratic Socialists of America.
Source: The Hill (thehill.com)
Voters in Virginia, Nevada, Missouri and Idaho will decide on reproductive rights in November, as a citizen-led initiative in Idaho seeks to restore some abortion rights.
Source: PBS NewsHour (pbs.org)
Voters will decide more than 140 ballot measures in 40 states next month, covering issues from abortion to voter ID to transgender rights.
Source: PBS NewsHour (pbs.org)
California officials call for an investigation after a U.S. citizen was allegedly detained by ICE, as a ProPublica investigation found more than 500 citizens caught up in immigration operations.
Source: PBS NewsHour (pbs.org)
Justice Elena Kagan says the Supreme Court's conservative majority rulings have weakened democracy and undermined voting rights ahead of the midterms.
Source: TIME (time.com)
The Young Democratic Socialists of America chapter at Stuyvesant High School co-signed a social media post declaring 'Intifada Until Victory!', and the school faces backlash.
Source: Politico (politico.com)
AIPAC made a last-minute donation to boost Mike Rogers in the Michigan Senate race against Abdul El-Sayed, whom it has spent heavily against.
Source: The New York Times Politics (nytimes.com)
President Trump said his decision to hold back sanctions on Russia was related to freeing an American wrongly imprisoned in Russia.
Source: The Hill (thehill.com)
LAPD data released Tuesday confirms a rise in hate crimes against gay men and transgender people in Los Angeles, and many more may be going unreported.
Source: them (them.us)
A Cornell case highlights shifting Federal Title IX enforcement, with ideology shaping interpretation of the law banning sex discrimination.
Source: The New York Times Politics (nytimes.com)
The Progress Action Fund is running ads calling out GOP for monitoring children's bathrooms to disrupt the right-wing media bubble.
Source: Truthout (truthout.org)
7 in 10 Americans doubt Trump will accept midterm results; the president has said he will accept them only if he deems them honest.
Source: Truthout (truthout.org)
Oil and tech money back Proposition 45, a California measure that would limit environmental law and ease development of projects including fossil-fuel facilities.
Source: Capital & Main (capitalandmain.com)